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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (128909)11/21/2000 11:58:48 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) of 1570118
 
Re: I watched part of the Supreme Court hearings, and I didn't get an impression that the judges are even considering going by Florida laws

Florida law is clear, consistent, and provides for hand counts in close elections. So does Texas law, and that law was signed by G.W. Bush.

Bush should have requested recounts in the counties where he led by large margins. Instead he tried to block the routine, very legal process of recounts.

He ran away from the Military during Viet Nam and he ran away from finishing the fight for Florida. He tried to hide from the process of recounts that always happens during close elections in the United States. If he'd just asked for recounts where they would do him the most good, he almost certainly would have picked up some votes, most likely enough to win the election for him.

Bush, or those advisors he is supposed to be so great at picking made an incredibly stupid decision, and it looks like it may be about to cost him the Presidency.

I voted for Gore, but I am not happy about the idea of the Presidency being decided by indented "dimpled" ballots. Certainly not when the indented ballots are only counted in precincts that heavily favor one candidate or the other. Bush had better stop trying to hide from the process and get the recounts going in the precincts that favored him, or this is over, and over in an ugly way.

Dan
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